Monk's named item shopping list

[Greydeath]

It still didn't say "Ki weapon" on it like it should. However, I reported that it works centered over a year ago:

Yes you did - and you failed to update this. Not really my problem

[Arvess]

bump because people ask...

[YurmaSter]

Thanks to everyone for contributing to this thread.
Now if I can only get my hands on some holy handwraps at a decent price....

Kublii Khan lvl 6 monk

[Zyklon]

Necklace of Contemplation +5 conc, false life, +1 hit Caverns of Korromar.

Important note (unless they changed it): the necklace is no minimum level.

[rimble]

Important note (unless they changed it): the necklace is no minimum level.

Yeah, but at this point you'll be walking out of Korthos with your Goggles, Neck, and Boots taken on acquiring +3 ToHit. Even a Monk should, the Concentration doesn't matter a whole lot, but you can put it on a Hat if you really care.

[Cedwin]

Important note (unless they changed it): the necklace is no minimum level.

No they didn't change it, I pulled one a couple of weeks ago and passed it on to one of my lowbies.

[dvang]

Question, since I'm somewhat new. What good does the Concentration skill provide monks? I know that for spellcasters it work to prevent spells being interrupted, but I am unsure what benefit a monk would get.

[Arvess]

it relates to your ki. if your con is 10 you will lose ki until you stabilize at 10. if you enter a dungeon it will set to your concentration number

[t0r012]

gotta add in catacombs eternal rest hand wraps. +1 ghosttouch, silver, lesser undead bane (bound to account)
Yeah! finally able to drop that F'n vampire in church and cult.

captives, quest granted in harbor run in cerulan hills drops Weeping wraps, +2 wraps with 1d6 (ml 2 I think). ran this quest a lot and still haven't pulled a pair.

mentioned already
Necklace of contemplation is yes a no ML item with +1 to hit , +5 concentration and false life a nice collection. Drops in a level 8 quest caverns of korromar in house K.
situationally good, but korthos neck /boot or glove set to hit or light fort is better for most low levels.

Necro II pack end chest (optional, ask party to get all of the gears) give a slim chance at devout handwraps. metaline of pure good (bound to character)

[Loxy39]

Bump. Good post.

Started a monk about 4 days ago (Level 7) and loving it

[Angelus_dead]

Bump. Good post.

But it is an old post, not updated for important later additions.

What springs to mind are:
Icy Rainment- the ultimate AC garment for high-level non-warforged monks. Vale pack (and necro4?).
Jidztekza- bracers of AC 5 for low/mid level, with a stance-dependent bonus to Jump, healing amp, etc. Sentinels pack. Epic version too.
Shintao set- ring+necklace with concen 15 and +2 attack/damage. Shavarath pack.
Henshin set- ring+necklace with d6 fire damage and +1 ki income. Shav.
Dragontouch Vestament- a big list of possibilities. Reaver's Reach pack.
Dream Edge- kama with 3x crits and a few other powers, one of them random. Path of Inspiration pack.
Rahl's Might- quarterstaff with 3x crits, -8 AC debuff, and a random damage power. Inspiration.

[Jay203]

A_D
need a bit of update to the list
Eternal Handwraps from Catacombs comes in handy against Vampires and Wraiths/Spectres
Devout Handwraps from Shadow Crypt... 'nough said

[SINIBYTE]

No mention of Tharnes? Tumbleweed? Devouts? Arrowhead? Duskheart? etc etc

There an epic boatload of thing missing from this list. Needs a for real update.

[YakoSpiritFist]

Where is a good place to farm some decent hand wraps for level 6 monk? The prices in the AH for handwraps are horrible and a rip off. Also I don't have Deleras but I have most of the other low/mid level adventure packs.

[Jay203]

No mention of Tharnes? Tumbleweed? Devouts? Arrowhead? Duskheart? etc etc

There an epic boatload of thing missing from this list. Needs a for real update.

i thought we're just listing monk specific stuff?

[TPICKRELL]

Where is a good place to farm some decent hand wraps for level 6 monk? The prices in the AH for handwraps are horrible and a rip off. Also I don't have Deleras but I have most of the other low/mid level adventure packs.

IMO the best lowbie named wraps come from Deleras (Devotion) and Threnal (Fernian Wraps). Other than that, I'd just run all the House J/P quests you can and hope to pull a decent set of end reward wraps (Make sure you options are set to make end rewards determined by class). If you get a decent set of kamas, hold on to those also, they can make the dread zombies in a lot of those quests a lot less painful to beat down.

You might want to run Catacombs to get a set of Eternal Rest wraps if you are going to run the undead quests... They are not great, but they are silver and lesser undead bane, so might be better than your alternatives.

Turbine really ought add a set of nicked wraps to the Sharn Syndicate.

[Angelus_dead]

Where is a good place to farm some decent hand wraps for level 6 monk?

The thing is that for most combat purposes at those levels, named handwraps aren't nearly as good as the randomly-generated ones you can get... especially if you managed to stick Risian Frost damage onto them.

The Handwraps a low/mid level monk will try to get are one with Holy (for DPS on evil monster), one Shock + PG (DPS on neutral monster), and one with Stunning, to stun everything. Using a lot of Stunning Fist + Stunning Blow is often the dominant non-boss combat style for Monks.

One could complain that the developers made mistakes when they adding named handwraps, as most of them are pretty poor- except that the other named weapons in those quests are usually also pretty poor.